Oral history interview with Frank A. Johnson, 2009 January 16.

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Oral history interview with Frank A. Johnson, 2009 January 16.

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Interview with Frank A. Johnson, an Army veteran, concerning his childhood and education in Easton, Pa.; family's experience in the Great Depression; father's service in U.S. Navy in World War I; decision to go work while still attending school at age of thirteen; work with Lehigh Valley Railroad; memories of Pearl Harbor attack; family's move to New York City; service as civilian air raid warden; drafted in the U.S. Army in 1942; courtship with now-wife, Evelyne; basic training at Ft. Dix, N.J.; assignment to cryptography training program in Pawling, N.Y.; assignment to Albrook Field, Panama; assignments throughout Central and South America, which mainly involved intercepting communications of Nazis and Nazi sympathizers; help provided by network of Catholic priests; breaking German code; feelings regarding war's end; return to New York City; civilian career in manufacturing. Appendix consists of sixteen leaves of photos photocopies of paperwork.

68, [17] leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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